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Before the age of contrived commitment press conferences, before recruits began pulling bullpups from underneath a table to drive home the point they were becoming Bulldogs, all Gerry DiNardo could do was watch TV.

"I remember sitting in my office and watching Kevin Faulk tell everybody where he was going to attend school," LSU's former coach said.

A newspaper photographer came over to catch his reaction to the Tigers landing the pride of Carencro, La. When Faulk, the in-state kid with all the hype, committed to LSU, DiNardo raised both arms straight over his head. Touchdown.

"They broke into local programming for his announcement," DiNardo said. "That was January 1995. This was extraordinary in that time."

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